Bidwell, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1906 1981

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

• 1906 USGS Bidwell quadrangle1:62500
• 1908 USGS Bidwell quadrangle1:62500
• 1908 USGS Bidwell quadrangle1:62500
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Vinton quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Vinton quadrangle1:24000
• 1981 USGS Ironton quadrangle1:100000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Bidwell between 2006 and 2020, burning about 213 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Porter
• Evergreen
• Harrisburg
• Prospect Hill (historical)
• Woods Mill
• Fairview

Every fire recorded in Gallia County

Museums hold 238 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bidwell between 1900 and 1974: 145 Animalia, 65 Plantae, 26 Fungi, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. M. Evans, Babcocks D. O., Bartley, F. and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Chaetona flavipennis Coquillett, 1902	1900	[Not Stated]	Vinton
	Chrysops niger Macquart, 1838	1900	not recorded
	Gymnosporangium germinale (Schwein.) F.Kern	1901	Kellerman, W.A.	Vinton
	unnamed	1900	none specified	Vinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
	Animalia	1900	not recorded	Vinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
	Arthromacra aenea	1900	not recorded	Vinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
	Chrysotus Meigen, 1824	1900	none specified	Vinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
	Chrysotus distinctus Van Duzee, 1924	1900	none specified	Vinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
	Chrysotus obliquus Loew, 1861	1900	none specified	Vinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
	Liancalus genualis Loew, 1861	1900	not recorded	Vinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
	Meracantha contracta (Palisot de Beauvois, 1812)	1900	not recorded	Vinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
	Tarpela micans (Fabricius, 1798)	1900	not recorded	Vinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States

All 238 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Bidwell: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Bituminous. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Gallia County

The National Weather Service names Bidwell in 11 storm reports between 2002 and 2026: 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

Every storm recorded in Gallia County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1070682. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.